Title: Poem Pattern
Author: iniyan
Published: April 12, 2022
Last modified: July 4, 2026

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## Song of the Soul

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes
facts and conceptsfrom books and from what the teacher says,collecting information
from the traditional sciencesas well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind othersin
regard to your competence in retaininginformation. You stroll with this intelligencein
and out of fields of knowledge, getting always moremarks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshnessin the center of the chest. This 
other intelligencedoes not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,and it doesn’t move
from outside to insidethrough conduits of plumbing-learning.

Questa seconda conoscenza è una sorgente
da dentro di te che si muove verso l’esterno.

~ Rumi

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Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi